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Bronze, height 46.5 cm, mounted on a black wooden base (17.5 x 47.3 x 41.3 cm). The cast-with monogramm 'MK' (ligatured) lower right, foundry inscription "AKT. GES. GLADENBECK. BERLIN" and number "D 4766" on reverse at lower edge. - With dark brown, partly golden-brown highlighted patina. - Later, probably posthumous cast. - With few yellowish stains and somewhat soiled. Base with slight rubbing and bumped as well as somewhat stained. Literature Max Klinger: Die neue Salomé. Dokumentation und Interpretation (Meisterwerke aus dem Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, vol. 1), Leipzig 1983, p. 15 f.; Max Klinger. Wege zum Gesamtkunstwerk, exib. cat. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 1984, p. 265; Max Klinger. Bestandskatalog der Bildwerke, Gemälde und Zeichnungen im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, p. 51 Made of polychrome marble, Klinger's Salomé (Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig) was the artist's first fully resolved sculpture. Klinger had begun to develop it in a series of preparatory studies in Paris in 1886. The painted plaster model was completed in 1887; the finished work, executed in marble of different colours, was completed in Rome and Leipzig in 1893. "In 1894, when he unveiled his "Salomé", Klinger first presented himself as a sculptor to the Leipzig public. Although opinion about the work remained divided, the Kunstverein acquired it for the museum, which was a major recognition for the artist. Klinger's work brought something new to European sculpture of the nineteenth century. Choosing a significant and poignant subject at that time, he articulated his position on the contemporary debate about polychromy in sculpture and achieved an exemplary work with a clear tectonic structure." (Gerhard Winkler, Max Klinger, Leipzig 1984, p. 184) The bronze sculpture offered here is a scaled down version of the Leipzig marble sculpture. From 1903, with Max Klinger's approval, bronze reductions of the sculpture were produced in two sizes, as well as alabaster and bronze casts of the head with a tapered section of the chest which were cast by the bronze foundries Gladenbeck, Berlin, and C.B. Lorck, Leipzig.